The greatest feature of traveling outside was its instability.
For example, just now, Ye Yu had been out of the village for less than half an hour.
Flying just over a hundred li on his own, he was stopped by a scorpion demon.
The scorpion held a damaged low-grade demon weapon—a long saber. Though worthless, in the hands of a peak Golden Core demon, it was still rare.
So this scorpion demon, thinking to use his higher realm to bully others, ran a side business here:
Collecting demon stones—in other words, protection fees!
Faced with such a demon, Ye Yu felt not annoyance but a bit of joy.
"Evil yet adorable bad guys, you lost lambs, let me lead you back to the right path!"
Justice Points, here I come!
So Ye Yu once again used his slippery tongue, employing the art of verbal persuasion, hoping to quickly reform this little scorpion.
Unfortunately, this time he met a strong opponent.
The scorpion’s evil intent was firm. No matter how Ye Yu pleaded, the little scorpion never let go of his broken demon saber.
This made Ye Yu’s expression serious.
"Tsk tsk, this is going to be a big one!"
"No, I can’t give up easily—the harder it is, the greater the reward!"
Thinking this, Ye Yu reignited his fighting spirit and tried again to persuade the scorpion to return to goodness.
He extolled that righteous demons were the greatest!
After more than half an hour of talking,
The little scorpion finally responded:
"Enough, stop talking—I’m hard of hearing and can’t hear a thing you say."
"But seeing you so persistent yet unwilling to pay demon stones, you must be a deadbeat. I won’t rob you today—go away!"
This simple statement immediately broke Ye Yu’s defense.
"Damn it!"
"So after all that talking, you didn’t listen at all?"
"And you even called me a deadbeat at the end?"
"If that’s the case, why didn’t you say so earlier? Don’t you know persuading demons to reform is mentally exhausting?"
"Too much!"
Seeing Ye Yu didn’t leave, the scorpion angrily swung his battle-damaged demon saber.
"What’s up, deadbeat? Still not leaving? Do I have to stab you twice before you get it?"
At this moment, Ye Yu couldn’t stand it anymore.
He immediately unleashed the Qinglian Lightning Sword Technique; a thunderbolt struck the scorpion demon dead!
"You bastard! Wasting so much of my time. Even if I lose the Justice Points, I’ll kill you on the spot!"
"Otherwise, my demon heart wouldn’t be at peace!"
Unexpectedly, the system’s voice sounded right on time.
"Detected destruction of bully scorpion demon; prevented further evils. Truly a righteous act. Awarded 50 Justice Points!"
Wow, this was probably the highest single Justice Point reward Ye Yu had ever received.
Usually 10 or 20 points, now a full 50.
Maybe this was the true way to activate the Heart of Justice!
Excitement instantly appeared on Ye Yu’s face.
"I must carry justice through to the end!"
At 25 years old, Ye Yu had risen to mid-stage Ascension Realm!
For eleven whole years, he had walked the lonely path of fighting evil.
Thus, within ten thousand li around, everyone knew there was a righteous demon in the Huagu Mountain Range maintaining peace.
The weaker demons nearby were very grateful to Ye Yu.
But what they didn’t know was the outside world’s opinion was different.
There was even a saying widely spread:
"Better to go to the King of Hell’s palace than the Huagu Mountain!"
This rhyme was recognized by many demons outside, because they had witnessed Ye Yu’s ferocity firsthand.
One demon lamented that when he and his brothers passed through Huagu Mountain Range, just because his brother spat on the ground, Ye Yu immediately killed him, claiming it was disrespect to the environment!
That wasn’t the wildest reason—there were countless others unheard of.
Like boasting, cheating on a Dao partner, being ugly and scaring children, etc.
Basically, for any reason, Ye Yu would stand on the high ground of justice, pick a fault, then casually kill you.
As a result, the forests of Huagu Mountain Range grew more lush.
But passing demons grew fewer.
Recently, Ye Yu clearly noticed this phenomenon.
Like today—he had been lurking here all day without seeing a single demon.
This annoyed him greatly!
"Where did the demons go?"
"Or have all the evils been cleared out? Is it time to move on?"
After some thought, Ye Yu finally decided to head toward a demon mountain a thousand li away, abandoning the nearby demon city.
The reason was simple: there were only nine major demon cities in the entire demon world!
Though Ye Yu was now at Ascension Realm, he was still no match for truly powerful demons.
So safe development early on was important.
The demons on the demon mountains were relatively weaker, making it easier for him to carry out justice!
That night, Ye Yu arrived at Wanxuan Mountain.
Feeling the dense demon aura around him, he felt instantly refreshed.
"So many evil demons!"
"Time to spread justice to them!"
Without hesitation, Ye Yu headed toward the place with the densest demon aura.
Soon he saw over a dozen patrol demons.
Each looked uglier than the last; under the night’s cover, they seemed even creepier.
"What if they stay in the demon world and scare others?"
Ye Yu immediately executed the ‘Beauty is Justice’ doctrine, thoroughly killing them.
Seeing the 80 Justice °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° Points gained, Ye Yu didn’t stop, pushing onward.
He brutally fought all the way to the entrance of the mountain lord’s blessed cave realm.
However, just as Ye Yu steadied himself,
A huge figure slid on its knees at high speed, raising dust.
Honestly, the artistry of this move made Ye Yu’s eyes light up.
But the next second, a deep voice sounded:
"In my heart, there is only justice. I am at odds with evil to the death! Heaven is witness to this!"
